Evaluating Bandwidth

[Trevor Sharpe]

Dennis Muhlestein wrote:
> We recently moved our office to American Fork.  We were set up with
> AfConnect without a lot of input from anyone.  Does anyone know if
> they do anything weird with bandwidth limiting?  Perhaps they are just
> plain slow.
> 
> We supposedly get 6 megabit up/down but I don't download anything near
> that rate at most sites.
> If I do a speed test at speedtest.net, I do in fact get close to their
> advertised rate from the Xmission mirror in salt lake.  If I then
> proceed to mirrors.xmission.com and download an ISO For something, I
> only get about 1 megabit.  Is xmission limiting bandwidth on the
> mirror?
> 
> Anyhow, overall we are experiencing a lot of dropped connections for
> downloads, dropped calls (voip phones) and our VPN gets terminated on
> a frequent basis.   I have yet to successfully download any file over
> 100 megs.  I get cut off around 50-70 megs without exception so far.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts or experience?

I had a conversation with Kevin Blackham, when he used to work at
XMission. They do or did throttle mirrors.xmission.com because if they
didn't it would be abused. I don't know to what extent they throttle the
bandwidth.

FYI